Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being committed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being committed.

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  • adjective Capable of being committed.

Etymologies

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commit +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The zappos culture includes committable core values: deliver WOW, embrace change, create fun and a little weirdness, be adventurous and creative and open-minded, pursue learning, be honest, be positive, do more with less, be passionate, be humble.

    Web Teacher › SXSW: Saturday Opening Remarks: Tony Hsieh 2009

  • Every committable offense you could make in a sequel is made: No original cast members (with the exception of Chevy Chase, who basically took the money and ran), a bad script, and the fact that none of the cast members appear to be interested at all make this film so very horrid.

    Top 10 Worst Sequels » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • We also went through a process of asking our employees what our core ten committable values should be, and we developed them through a yearlong process.

    Soren Gordhamer: My Interview With Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, On Happiness 2009

  • From a business perspective, if you have a greater vision beyond just profits or money -- and that you can get employees to be happy about and believe in -- and you combine that with a culture with committable core values, I think that is what will help grow businesses and brands in the long-term.

    Soren Gordhamer: My Interview With Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, On Happiness 2009

  • Erin, as a deeply committed SWAPer, sometimes committable, but that's another post.

    I-let, you-let, we all let for eyelet - A Dress A Day 2007

  • “I did not think she would be a committable patient.”

    Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

  • There is, as the court notes, some likelihood that with these standards Burch is not committable.

    Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

  • Of increasing concern is the sexual offender who has been convicted, has served a prison term, has been released into the community, and may still be dangerous.9 Under many civil commitment statutes which require evidence of recent dangerous behavior, incarcerated offenders often are not committable.

    Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

  • They have justified -- but in German eyes only -- every committable crime, and they cost nothing -- except the souls of their perpetrators.

    Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912

  • It is a bit of effort to get Polisher scripts written for every Ruby related package, but if this thing starts rolling, I can see this as being a useful tool in the "upstream project to Fedora repo" process as mass parallel source releases can be triggered and handled easily in a committable/reproducible/reliable fashion.

    RubyCorner movitto 2010

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